Scam E-mail Campaign Purports to be from Middlesbrough’s Law Company

A law company of Middlesbrough has issued an alert that one e-mail scam is doing the rounds posing as messages from it, thus published darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk dated 7th October, 2013.

One big town, Middlesbrough, is located on River Tees' southern bank inside North-Eastern United Kingdom which is in North Yorkshire, an English ceremonial county.

The law company QualitySolicitors Punch Robson, situated in Albert Road had businesses and individuals worldwide calling him over phone.

The spam mails seemed as arriving from Belgium while posed as Land Registry or Inland Revenue Service communications.

A sample of the scam e-mail reaching one person that told him on behalf of The Land Registry that his account would be debited with 208 pounds and that the details about the payment were being sent through one zipped file attachment that needed to be opened.

Punch Robson's Spokeswoman stated that the e-mails that sounded pretty convincing concerned the company very much. Typically when such scam e-mails got dispatched to users, the resulting effect meant that incase those people viewed the given attachment then the same e-mail was likely to get dispatched to all of those users' contact ids, reported darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk.

But, the Middlesbrough law firm didn't send the e-mails as also the assertion about receivers requiring giving in fresh files is a fake. The two web-links within the spam mail take onto compromised sites, which host different kinds of malware, capable of filching sensitive data stored on the contaminated PC, establishing linkages with servers that online crooks regulate, as also downloading more malicious content.

Recipients of the scam e-mails are duped into perceiving they'll land into trouble incase they don't respond fast to the so-called IRS messages. Consequently, becoming panicky, some recipients (counting the least) are sure to follow the web-links followed with pulling down the malware.

Eventually, cyber-criminals using the Land Registry's name are not new. For, during September 2013, Land Registry of UK that registers property and land ownerships became the target of Internet thieves. During that scam campaign, users received e-mails from cyber-crooks telling them that the Land Registry would charge certain fees against their accounts.